One time

by Julie

Warehouse Maryland.  10am

Sweat dripped from Fox Mulder's brow.  Heat, nerves, anticipation and heavy bulletproof jackets didn't make a good combination.  FBI and NSA print could be seen on the jackets of heavily armed men and women quietly surrounding the dilapidated warehouse.  For four months someone had been destroying government web-sites and replacing them with government secrets from this location.

A swarm of agents ascended the stairs and made silent motions to enter a door at the top of the building.   Mulder and NSA agent Burns stood their ground in the lead and pointed their guns in anticipation.  A loud crash was heard and they broke their way into what seemed like a makeshift apartment.  Agents scurried in and made their way to the back.  Mulder suddenly let out a huge gasp at what he saw.

Her lethargic face was sunken and pale.  Her cheekbones protruded from her face.  She was almost unrecognisable; a shadow of her former self.  She had not much improved from the last time he saw her after so many terrible experiments had been performed on her.  Heavy bags hung from her small eyes.  She was a long way from her glamorous days as an assistant to the Special Representative for the Secretary General for the United Nations.

Marita sat cowering on a small bed in a corner of the room.  She was clad in jeans and an old T-shirt, and wrapped in a blanket.  A strongly equipped computer terminal sat in the middle of the room.  Two cots made up the sleeping area.  The kitchen comprised of a fridge and a microwave.  A bathroom lay at the other end of the apartment.

Mulder ordered the agents to lower their arms, as she wasn't dangerous.

Scully stood at Mulder's side looking pitifully at this scared woman.  Mulder offered her his hand.  At first she hesitated but decided to accept.  Scully motioned for her to move towards.  The three spoke no words.  Mulder was aware of the type of information that she was exposed to during her time at the UN.  He didn't see however why she would no release this to the general public.  The other bed was he first indication of an accomplice.

He decided to wait until the apartment had been searched to ask her any questions.

Police Station, Baltimore, Maryland.  2pm

It was agreed on to question her at this cop shop.  Agent Burns had been interrogating her for two hours with no success.  Mulder and Scully however were astonished when she named Alex Krycek as the leek.

Mulder entered the box room.  Marita sat in the corner watching as Scully followed close behind.  Mulder broke the silence.

"Marita, what happened to you?  When I saw you after visiting Cassandra Spender you were trapped and I didn't see you again.  I thought you were dead.  I know they were using you to test the vaccine's resistance to certain organisms"

"When I was infected with the black oil they used me as a guinea pig to perfect it.  When they did that they decided not to waste an immune body.  They had to find all its weaknesses to see what sections of the public would not be saved by the vaccine.  They infected me with shingles, measles, botulism, meningitis and their own little favourite small pox.  They used small pox to see if bees would be suitable carriers of a disease and got attached to the little infection."

Scully broke in: "What has Krycek got to do with you?  He and Spender helped me escape from my prison.  Krycek couldn't forgive me betraying him in the past but had empathy for my situation.  He looked after me while at the same time sabotaging web-sites."

"How did you come to know him?"  Mulder enquired but was interrupted by a young officer entering.

"Agents, there is a man at the desk who says his name is Arnsen and is turning himself in.  He said he will only talk to Agent Mulder and only after he is reassure of Miss.  Coverrubius' safety"

Mulder quickly hurried from the room.  Scully waited though and repeated Mulder's last question.

Marita waited until the door had been closed and started: "We were lovers.  We met in Russia when I was on an operation with the UN.  He was so passionate yet so sensitive that I made myself forget who the both of us were at let myself follow my heart.  I knew it was an enormous mistake but continued nevertheless.  I took a boy from him who was infected with the black-oil under the guise of passion."

"You said he couldn't forgive you but why did he help you escape from them"

"I was on my way to inform Agent Mulder of Krycek's return when the boy infected me.  I guess he thought I got the punishment I deserve.  He doesn't trust me, he never will again - but you have to understand something Ms.  Scully.  I sleep 12 hours a day, lie in bed another 6 unable to move.  He does everything for me.  I'm not capable of looking after myself.  He doesn't hold me like he used to or kiss me even except when we both feel the need for a little comfort and we make love but then we go back to not even talking for days.  He is a really caring person caught up in a world of corruption.  He is doing the right thing.  He is doing the same thing as Mulder and yourself but is willing to go at it in different ways.  He has never been in league with the colonisers but will play along so as to gain information about the timetable for colonisation.  Now that most of the syndicate has been destroyed, it is time for new people to decide the fate of this planet"

Scully sat there gobsmacked.  She had never created a picture of Krycek as a caring person who was working towards the same goals as she was.  Moreover she was surprised that here she was hearing Coverrubius declare that a timetable for colonisation had begun and she was fantasising about Krycek.  She still used her science to explain away Mulder's

little green men' and tried to believe that it was over with the syndicate destroyed even if she didn't believe.

Scully felt great pity for this woman and the pain her knowledge had given her.  She saw so much of herself in Marita.  She too worked with a man who she obviously cared for towards an almost unattainable goal up against a strong force who has the advantage.

Mulder dragged Krycek into an interrogation room roughly.  He threw him towards a chair and shut the door.

"It's always nice to see you again Fox.  I haven't had my ass whipped for some time now."

"Shutup and sit down.  I'm not in the mood.  For one thing why have you been leaking secrets and two, why are you stupid enough to turn yourself in"

"One-The public are the best medium with which to deal.  They going to be destroyed if colonisation takes place so why shouldn't they at least have half a chance to try and stop it from happening.  Two-I won't let Marita take the wrap.  Three -which will be the answer to your next question, is that I can help you.  We have to work together to stop what we don't want to happen"

"Why would you think I would believe you?"  At that, Scully walked in after hearing the end of Krycek's speech.

She turned to look at Krycek.  "I think we should let him help.  I know what kind of person he is but aren't we trying to achieve the same things."

Mulder could never resist that soft look she gave him when she wanting something really bad.  I gently pulled her outside the door.  "What the hell do you think he can offer us", Mulder pleaded.

"Marita said that he has hidden a disk with the timetable for colonisation in a case buried in the desert of New Mexico.  I think that we can convince him to show it where it is.  We need help.  We're at a standstill and he can help us move forward"

"Scully, what did she drug you with in there?  Suddenly you believe in aliens and colonisation.  What happened to your science?"

"Maybe I have to use my science and apply it to the fantastic to get results.  What the hell are you angry about?  I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't.  Do you just like being in opposition to me."  Scully stormed out of the police station and went home.

Dana Scully's appartment.9pm

Mulder hesitated before knocking.  His hands were clammy and he wasn't sure if she would talk to him but he had to make peace with her.  He always hating fighting with her and now he needed her to go with him.

Scully was lying on her couch with tears in her eyes watching Spin City on video.  She was an old romantic at heart and finally saw Mike and Nikki declare their feelings to each other.  This was something that her and Mulder were terrible at.  They didn't know if the other felt the same and so bottled it all up.  When Mulder told her he loved her after returning from the Bermuda Triangle, she thought that he was drugged the eyes.  Every night she tried to work up the courage to ask him did he mean it.  She slowly rose to answer the knock on the door.

Mulder had become disheartened by her 'Oh!Brother' rejection of love and felt that he should keep his feelings out of his apology and request to accompany him to New Mexico.  He saw her weary face answer the door and his heart ached.  He hoped he hadn't caused her any pain by what the way he treated her earlier.

"Why are you here Mulder", she asked delicately.

"I'M SORRY that I was a little annoyed that you changed your views after one conversation with someone else while you haven't believed me all this time.  Here's a present."  He handed her an envelope.

She looked at the envelope.  It didn't look like much in the way of an apology.  She opened it cautiously.  Inside were three tickets to New Mexico.

"What's this?"

"Marita, Krycek and I came to an agreement.  Marita will take the blame until we come back.  I told them that 'Arnsen' was an attention-seeking idiot who doesn't know anything and they let him go.  He'll show us where he hid the files if we protect him.  When they figure out Marita can't even get herself out of bed I'll convince them to let her go.  We leave bright and early in the morning.  I'll collect you at six."  He talked cold and detached and left her feeling more used than usual.

Bertie Ahern Motel, New Mexico.5pm

After driving for hours, everybody was exhausted.  Scully was hand cuffed to Krycek in the back while Mulder booked into the motel and got the keys for the room.  Krycek would have one room with the two agents taking turns watching over him.  The other agent would occupy he other room.  Krycek stared intently at Scully in the back seat.  She felt his eyes on her and swung around to confront him.

"What the hell do you think you're staring at?  Do I have two heads or what?"  She felt little else but contempt for him.  He had once been sent to kill her and had murdered Mulder's father.

"Nothing!  I just was looking at how the sun brings out a lovely glow on your face.  You almost look contented which is something I've never seen on you."

"Flattery will get you nowhere.  Anyway, what do you know about me!"  she asked angrily.

"More than you think.  Spying was my business you know."  He saw Mulder coming.  "He doesn't treat you like you deserve.  You do everything for him and he never reciprocates."

Mulder open the door and helped Scully out.  He roughly pulled out Krycek and pulled him along.  The two rooms were across the carpark from each other.  They were the only guests but these were the only rooms prepared.  The motel was set against the backdrop of a vast desert illuminated by the evening sun falling into the valleys.  The road that led them to the motel was void of cars for 50 miles.

Scully uncuffed herself from Krycek and he made himself comfortable on the bed.  Mulder and Scully set themselves up.  Mulder suggested that he go to the town 10 miles further down the road and pick up some things and get petrol.  Scully would stay with Krycek and Mulder would take him for a couple of hours later.

Mulder had been gone for five minutes when Krycek spoke.  "What I've done in the past has been for the greater good."  He waited before he spoke again.  "I know what happened to you in the Antarctic and I'm really sorry that this kind of thing goes on.   So do you see why I'm working to stop this from happening again."

"You're a murderer and a liar Krycek.  Shut up."

"I'm not that bad.  I know that you think that I was sent to kill you but I planned on stopping my partner by any means necessary.  You weren't expected home and when your sister came in he got trigger happy."

"Nice story.  What about Mulder's father then?  What's your excuse behind that?"

"He had to be killed.  He had done some bad things in his life and deserved what he got.  He was an old man and his life was near its end.  I just ended it early so he wouldn't ruin the project."

Scully thought for a minute and to her surprise she began to believe him.  He had an excuse for everything and was really quite charming.  Marita was his biggest defender and she felt so comfortable with him she was inclined to believe him.

They sat in silence for several more minutes.  She didn't take her eyes off him.  She didn't know if she was desperate or was it the compliment that he had paid her in the car but she found him quite attractive.  He had gentle eyes that gleamed from the light peering through the curtains.  His slightly ruffled hair and perfectly shaped face had her in a deep fantasy.

Krycek sat on the edge of the bed next to her and lay one hand on her shoulder.   She jumped ever so slightly.

"Don't worry!  You're the one with the gun."  He placed his other hand almost seductively on her other shoulder and rubbed gently.  "You are so tense.  Does he always make you this tense?"

"What are you doing?  Stop that."  She said, not really meaning it.  "Anyway it's more likely you that is making me tense."

He took his hands off her and moved away.  She turned around not knowing that he wasn't finished.  They were now both sitting firmly in the middle of the large bed.  Without warning he took her hand and kissed her fingers ever so gently.  She pulled way without really wanting to.

He detected that she didn't really want to pull away as she didn't chastise him or take her gentle eyes off of him.  He put one hand on her bent knee and assured her: "Don't worry, I'm not going to try any thing that you don't want me to"

Scully was in shock.  She was not used to this type of attention.  He had that certain charm that made you forget who you both are just like Marita had said.  She didn't move away but sat still biting her lips.  She wasn't frightened or tense but tingles were sent down her spine by his touch.

He leaned in slowly to allow her time to pull away but she didn't flinch.  His mouth was so close to hers that she could hear his shallow breath.  He could smell her sweet breath in unison with his.  The lips brushed closer together and they could taste each other's lips.  He gently kissed her and she returned the favour.  He moved closer but she still stayed still.  He deepened the kiss and put his hands to her neck to caress it softly.

She felt his hands on her skin.  He was so careful.  She never had such a sensual feeling.  She also deepened the kiss on her part.  They were on fire with passion.  Their tongues danced and they forget all the worries of the outside world.  She moved her hands to his lower back and moved them slowly under his shirt.

He placed one of his hands on her waist and squeezed lightly.  She allowed him to lay her on the bed.  Her hands moved intensely on his bare chest.  He cautiously gestured to open one of her shirt buttons when they were interrupted.

Mulder stood in amazement for a microsecond until Scully pulled away and stood away from the bed startled.  Mulder didn't know how to read the situation but in any event he was going to kill him.  He lunged to punch him but Scully leaped in the way.

"No Mulder.  We need his help.  Leave it"

Mulder brought Scully outside the door.  "What did he do?  Don't defend him if he forced himself-."

"I wouldn't defend him even if he did something.  I was lying on the bed and he asked what I'd do if he kissed me.  I said I'd punch him and he said he'd take his chances.  He just touched my lips when you came in."

"Are you sure?"  Mulder calmed slightly but still wanted to kick his ass.

"Yeah!  You're a little upset so maybe I should sit with him for a while.  You want that information, don't you?  Do you think that I'd go back in there if he was forcing himself on me"

Mulder grudgingly agreed and walked across to the other room.  When she saw Mulder enter she went back into the room.  Krycek stood there with a sly look in his face and tried to read her feelings.  He decided to try again and passionately but sensitively kissed her.  He kissed down her neck and opened her blouse.  She returned his kisses and they moved to the bed--

The following morning they dressed and unlocked the door.  They both knew that it could only be that <One Time> They met Mulder who was never to know about their time together.

The End

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